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y of which, it was thought, the ulterior object aimed at could be attained.
That there was ample cause for apprehension on our part became apparent to me upon my first conference with General Pemberton, in which I learned that by his orders a complete abandonment had been made, not only of the system of coast defense devised by me as early as April, 1861, but also of the one said to have been projected by General R. E. Lee while in command of the same department from December, 1861, to March, 1862.
For these had been substituted another and an interior system, rendering our lines vulnerable at various points, and necessitating more labor and a greater armament than we could command.
The inspection made by me a few days later confirmed that opinion; for the works in and around Charleston, most of which had been badly located, were not in a state of completion, nor was their armament by any means adequate to the dimensions of some of them.
The defenses of the harbor existing at

welfth Corps who had gone West with the Eleventh Corps from the Army of the Potomac, the distant thunder of the battle of the clouds was the first sound of conflict in the new field.
Some of our Potomac airs, which had earned us the name of Kid gloves and paper collars,
The Twelfth Corps of the Army of the Potomac was named Kid gloves and paper collars by the Fourteenth Corps of the Western Army owing to the careful discipline of the Twelfth Corps.
It was originally the Fifth Corps (March, 1862), then it became the Second Corps, Army of Virginia (June, 1862), then the Twelfth Corps (September, 1862). The basis of it was Banks's old division, and Banks was its first commander.
Mansfield commanded the corps at Antietam, where lie was killed and was succeeded by Slocum.
The corps had as subordinate commanders such men as A. S. Williams, Charles S. Hamilton, John W. Geary, George H. Gordon, Ruger, Andrews, William Hawley, and the discipline they imparted continued to the end and a